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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN M. GETCHELL, OF HAVERHILL, NEV HAMPSHIRE, ASSIGNOR OF ONE..

' HALF TO WILLIAM W. OROOK, OF SAME PLACE.

BICYCLE-SU PPO RT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 574,676, dated January 5, 1897.

Application filed March 27, 1896. Serial N0. 585,110. (N0 model.)

To @ZZ whom il; may concerne: Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail showing Be it known that I, JOHN M. GETCHELL, a the clasp and the twoportions of the support. citizen of the United States, residing at North Like letters of reference indicate like parts Haverhill, in the county of Grafton and State in the several views. 5 of NewI-Iampshire,haveinvented certain new Referring .now to the details of the draw- 55 and useful Improvements in Bicycle-Supings by letter, A designates portions of the ports 5 and I do hereby declare the following frame of a bicycle of known construction.

to be a full, clear, and exact description of the A is the front wheel, and A2 is the rear wheel, invention, such as will enable others skilled also of any well-known orsuitable form of con- Io in the art to which it appertains to make and struction. 6o use the same. B is a clamp adapted to be engaged about This invention relates to certain new and the rear vertical bar of the frame, as shown, useful improvements in bicycle-supports of at any desired position, being vertically adthat class which are designed to be attached justable thereon and secured in position by 15 to and carried with the bicycle, but capable the binding-screw, and this clamp is held on 65 of ready detachment, when desired, for repair the upper end of the slide-rod C, which is prefor other purposes. erably rectangularin cross-section, as shown, It has for its objects, among others, to proand its lower end is curved in two directions, vide a simple and cheap yet strong and duforwardly and outwardly, as seen at c, and 2o rable and etlicient support easily applied or near its lower end has attached thereto the 7o removed when desired, and which is adapted clamp or clasp D, which is designed to be sefor use in connection with wheels of different cured about the rear bar of the bicycle, as diameters. The lower end of the rest or supshown. The lower outer end of this curved port is curved forward and outward, so as to portion is provided with an opening in which 2 5 throw the support away from the path of the the rest E is designed to slide. This rest has 75 chain and also to throw it downward to make its lowerend preferably pointed or otherwise the point of support as near the ground as constructed, as seen at e, so as to ettect a firm possible and avoid liabilityof injuryorbreakhold upon the ground or iioor, and at its upage by undue strains. IVhen the restis down, per end is provided with the lateral extension 5o it braces six or eightinches, more orless, above E', having an opening therethrough to re- 8o the wheel and avoids tendency of the wheel ceive the bar or rod O, and provided with to trip or slide upon the ground. The rest is a thumb screw F, extending horizontally practically self-adjusting when the set-screw through the same and adapted to engage the is loosened, and by adjusting it either to right rod C and hold the rest in any desired posi 3 5 or left on the frame will bring the frame into tion. 85 the desired angle, and the parts are so con- The rod O, near the clamp B, is provided structed that when the rest is down it is pracwith a shoulder or offset C, as seen best in tically self-locked. Figs. 2, 3, and 4, so that when the rest slides Other objects and advantages of the invendown into its lowerlnost position the lateral 4o tion will hereinafter appear, and the novel portion E thereof will be received ,in this 9o features thereof will be particularly pointed notch, and the thumb-screw engages therein, out in the appended claims. and, furthermore, by this construction when The invention is clearly illustrated in the the rest drops down into such position it is accompanying drawings, which, with the letpractically self-locking, the parts falling into 45 ters of reference marked thereon, form apart the position seen in Fig. 4, and the upper 95 of this specification, and in whichwall of the notch engaging over the top edge Figure l is a side elevation of a portion of of the lateral portion E of the rest holds the a bicycle, showing my rest applied thereto. same in its lowermost position, and the rest Fig. 2is a side elevation of the rest in its closed stands practically vertical, so as to prevent 5o condition. Fig. 3 is a View at right angles to tilting or sliding of the wheel. roo

Modifications in details may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of the in vention or sacriicing any of its advantages.

Having thus described the invention, what 5 is claimed as new isxo in the curved portion, and having at its upper end a lateral portion receiving the rod, substantially as described.

2. A bicycle-support consisting of a bar having lneans for attachment to the frame of 1 5 a bicycle and curved near its lower end, and

a rest mounted to slide through an opening in the curved portion, and having at its upper end a lateral portion receiving` the rod, and provided with set-screws, substantially zo as described.

A bicycle-support consisting of a rod provided with clamps for its attachment with the frame of a bicycle having its lower end curved in two directions, and a rest mounted to slide on the rod and pass loosely through an opening in the curved portion, and having a thumb-screw at its upper end, substantially as described.

4. A bicycle-support consisting of a rod provided with clamps for its attachment to the frame of a bicycle having its lower end curved in two directions, and a rest mounted to slide on the rod and pass loosely through an opening in the curved portion, and having a thumb-screw at its upper end, the said rod having a notch near its lower clamp, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specication in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN M. GETCHE'LL. Witnesses:

CHARLES NEWCOMB, WILLIAM W. CRooK. 

